hidden windows with dual displays
hidden windows with dual displays
- Subject: hidden windows with dual displays
- From: Young Hyun <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 15:42:32 -0700 (PDT)
I'm running X11.app v1.0 (XFree86 4.3.0) on a PowerBook G4 running 10.3.5.
I have a dual display setup, with a Dell 2000FP set up as the primary
display and the laptop display set as the secondary display. (Setting the
primary display to the laptop display doesn't fix my problem.)
If I disconnect the Dell LCD and launch X applications, everything works
fine. I can see the windows of the X applications on the laptop display.
Now, if I connect the Dell LCD and launch X applications, the windows for
some X applications don't show up on either display. Turning on display
mirroring brings back those hidden windows, so clearly the X applications
are running. Also, all hidden windows show up in the "Window" menu of
X11.app, and neither selecting a hidden window from that menu, nor
selecting "Bring All to Front" unhides any window. Hidden windows don't
show up with Expose. (And the hidden X windows aren't simply minimized;
they don't show up on the Dock.)
Toggling full-screen mode in X doesn't help. Even with full-screen mode
turned on, if I have both displays connected, some windows don't show up
on either display. I've tried restarting X11.app to no avail; nor does
restarting the computer fix this. It's very repeatable and extremely
irritating.
Note that some applications work correctly even with the dual display
setup. For example, xemacs (from DarwinPorts) works fine. The standard
xeyes and xclock work; the standard 'piano' application doesn't. The
xmgrace from DarwinPorts doesn't work, although the exact same build of
the program works perfectly fine on my home desktop with the same version
of MacOS X and X11.app. I've uninstalled and re-installed DarwinPorts
several times to make sure it wasn't the culprit. Since the problem
affects standard X applications, I'm pretty confident that the problem is
with X11.app/X11.
Has anyone come across this before?
--Young
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